Vitantonio Liuzzi has responded to his 5-place grid penalty at Silverstone by explaining that he believed Nico Hülkenberg was not expecting to pass. With the German having been on a flying lap in Q2, he was comprehensively obstructed by the Force India – which had just exited the pit lane – at Becketts.
After losing out in terms of top speeds in practice on Friday, Liuzzi was hoping for a more positive start to the weekend although the Italian will now start the race on Row 10 as opposed to Row 8.
“We need to work to understand why we were not so fast this session as we believed a Q3 position was possible with both cars, based on the performance in practice,” Tonio began.
“In Q1 it went okay and the balance in both the high and slow-speed corners was quite good. Unfortunately I only got one flying lap on my first run and then on the second couldn't improve. I think P12 or higher was there, but this can happen.
“We'll now start 20th because of the penalty - we thought that we had to keep Nico behind and I didn't realise he was on a hot lap; it's not going to be easy from there but there are overtaking spots here, at least, plus the incentive of racing in front of our home crowd.”
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